ÅTABAL-YÉMAL

One of the Venezuela prog pioneers, this band -after "Atabal Yemal"- sadly used to realise a lot of poppy and dispensable discs. Since the reedition of this classical South American album, TEMPANO returned to his progressive roots, providing a couple of excellent works in the last years.

"Atabal Yemal" isn't a masterpiece, but is an interesting stuff: there are symphonic moments (in the homonymous track), jazz and fusion touches and some nice simple ballads but, in the whole album, the typical Latinamerican flavour is always present.

Musea edition added 3 excellent bonus tracks, made in 1998. Well worth a listen.